Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson

@jim19146.bsky.social

Retired. Progressive. Astonished at what the US has become. Ashamed and angry.

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Jim is my name, 19146 is my zip code. Philadelphia. Born in San Antonio, traveled to most of the world. We have one job - the biggest and most important ever: Achieve universal human rights and save the planet. Really. You have something better or more important to do? Rethink it, friend.

www.washingtonpost.com//world/2026/... Yet another kind of deep and lasting damage Trump and his nazis are wreaking here and globally. We need to sweep all of these creeps out of office and into prison. We are not acting fast enough or strongly enough to make this STOP.

washingtonpost.comColumn | The world recoils at Trump’s ‘paramilitary’ forceThe havoc wrought by the deployment of federal immigration enforcement in the U.S. has wrought unflattering comparisons abroad to unaccountable paramilitary forces.

I'm sick of Democrats whining and not stopping Trump, ICE, etc. The GOP has majorities in Congress but that's a bad excuse. I keep thinking about LBJ. He was the consummate deal maker. I see him face to face with the other party, making deals, threatening to break legs. Using his massive clout.

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Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

Count me as someone looking forward to the day soon when Trump is hanged from a bridge in DC or Minneapolis, along with his entire cabinet. Leave them dangling there for a month to remind people here and around the world that we do not condone or tolerate what they are doing.

consumerbuzzreport.com/cq10v3/?1=31 This is the real deal. 15-25% of people taking, for example, atorvastatin, experience developing weakness in important, major muscles. I'm one of them. I have seen doctors of all stripes, but it was up to me to link the statins with failing leg strength. Crazy.

consumerbuzzreport.com Important Alert For Statin Users: Why Muscle Weakness No Longer Means Giving Up Your Independence A single discovery at a pharmacy revealed why millions of statin users are suffering needlessly - and how one doctor saved her father from assisted living.

I finally realized the "big picture" about Trump... His most defining characteristic is that he is a coward. He dodged military service in Vietnam. He needs someone to procure sex partners and can only deal with underage girls - and prostitutes. He lies about EVERYTHING to save his skin.

After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing Epstein files apnews.com/article/sena... So, how friggin' incompetent (and crooked) do you have to be to suddenly realize there are well over a million documents that DOJ didn't know about before now??!! Uh, oops!

apnews.comAfter missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing Epstein filesThe Justice Department says that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.

Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Count me as one who loathes the State of Israel and believes it never should have been created. Dropped in the middle of Islamic counties, now pillaging what rightly belongs to others. F*k em.

nytimes.comLand Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West BankIsraeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.

Fentanyl, heroine, cocaine, meth... The US wages endless and essentially failed wars on drugs. We're killing uncharged people on the high seas over this. What about the GUNS, folks? We manufacture millions of murder machines, arm the country...and the world. Perhaps it's time to sanction us.

We must fully grasp the imperative - and benefits - of advancing universal human rights vs the creation and accumulation of wealth and "things". There has always been a tiny fraction of humans who, like vampires, suck the blood and life out of the world. The sheer scale of it now demands action.

I am overwhelmed with grief and mourning to watch the people of the United States sit in the cheap seats watching the utter destruction of our great legacies of peace-making and advancement of human rights and science. The loss is truly cosmic.

Whatever greatness that may have been ascribed to the United States only amplifies the evil Trump is raining on our country and the world. We are reduced to the status of a stupid, selfish, ignorant bully nation. It serves NO GOOD PURPOSE to destroy the good name and works of America. It's evil.

Potash from Belarus instead of Canada??!! Cozy up to the authoritarian ally of Russia and reject trade with our peaceful and democratic neighbor to the north??!! Words fail to describe how absolutely awful is everything TRUMP. My God, people. WTF can we do to end this administration now?

I am at a point of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, pommeled every day, every hour with the insanity and atrocity of TRUMP. To begin to enumerate the offenses is to miss the big picture - and to drown in despair. Can we not bring this madness to an end? He is destroying everything.

Two things about Repub redistricting: 1. Trump will do anything to prevent a Democrat House majority, which will promptly impeach him. 2 I think there's a better than 50/50 chance that Republicans will lose the House no matter what crap they pull.

The rhetoric - from both sides - about 'affordability' is gaslighting. The reasons people can't afford a decent standard of living: Wages are way too low. Profit is the number 1, 2, and 3 priority of corporations, regardless of the harm it rains on consumers. Interest rates. Usury.

Listen to Bernie. Healthcare is a human right. It's not a blank check for hospitals, doctors, pharma and above all, insurance companies. It should not bankrupt families. It also should not be a burden on the balance sheets of companies big and small. Get a grip, USA. We need to get this right.

Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela apnews.com/article/trum... What the ABSOLUTE fuck??!! The US is a pirate nation now! This is piracy and nothing less. Look for widespread international condemnation. Possibly sanctions against the US. An ICC warrant for arrest?

apnews.comTrump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of VenezuelaPresident Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.